Explosion in Moghbazar building kills 7

At least seven people were killed and over 50 were injured following a huge blast in a building near Moghbazar Wireless Gate on Sunday evening.

The explosion occurred on the ground floor of a three-storey building around 7:30 pm, witnesses said.

“So far we got the information of seven deaths. All symptoms indicate it was explosion due to the pressure from gas,” Syed Nurul Islam, Joint Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police told The Business Post.

Baccu Miah, the officer in-charge of Dhaka Medical College Hospital police outpost told The Business Post that a total of 40 injured people were admitted to the hospital and 12 others were taken to nearby Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute.

Fourteen units of firefighters rushed to the spot, on duty fire service officer Mahfuz Riben.

Quoting witnesses, UNB said a portion of the building collapsed while glasses of three buses on the nearby road and the window panes of adjacent Aarong building, Bishal Center and some other buildings got smashed following the huge blast.

“The explosion might have occurred in either Shawarma House or Bengal Meat’s showroom on the ground floor of the three-storey building…that’s our primary suspicion,” Debashish Bardhan, Deputy Director (Dhaka zone) at Fire Service and Civil Defence, told the news agency.